Russia plans to effectively take control of Moldova by the end of the decade, according to a leaked Kremlin document.
Moscow drew up a detailed plan to bring the former Soviet nation into its orbit by 2030, several European media outlets and the Dossier Centre, a non-government organisation funded by Russia’s former richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky, reported on Wednesday.
The memo, drawn up in 2021, reveals Moscow’s fears that the election of pro-Western president Maia Sandu the year before was pulling the country out of its reach. By 2030, the Kremlin would effectively have Moldova under its control as the country would have joined Russia-centred Eurasian Economic Union and other groups and NATO’s influence would subside.
The memo was drafted by the same presidential directorate on cross-border cooperation that penned a similar document for Belarus that outlined its effective annexation with the input from Russia’s intelligence community.Moldovan authorities have not commented on the memo, but the country’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean, who assumed office also last month, said it confirmed his fears that the Kremlin has been using Russian state TV, widely available in Moldova until recently, to brainwash citizens.
“More specifically, Russian actors, some with current ties to Russian intelligence, are seeking to stage and use protests in Moldova as a basis to foment a manufactured insurrection against the Moldova government,” he said.
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